Monkeybone [Region 2]
by Henry Selick
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Actor: Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, Chris Kattan, Giancarlo Esposito, John TurturroDirector: Henry Selick
DVD: Region Code 2
Audio: English (Original Language); Czech (Subtitled); Danish (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Finnish (Subtitled); Hungarian (Subtitled); Icelandic (Subtitled); Norwegian (Subtitled); Polish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Swedish (Subtitled)
Format: PAL
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
DVD Reviews of Monkeybone [Region 2]
DVD Review: The Weirdest Movie You'll Ever See
Summary: 5 Stars
By weird I do truly mean weird, in a way that you can't possibly see what was going through writer, Sam Hamms mind when devising this film. The story itself is weird enough but when focusing on the land of nightmares, known as Downtown, I found myself looking at something resembling the world of Jim Henson creations.
The story focuses around artist and animator Stu Miley (Brendan Fraser), a man who struggles with nightmare problems and has just achieved success with his greatest cartoon creation, Monkeybone. One day after a preview showing of a pilot episode, Stu and his girlfriend Julie (Bridget Fonda) are involved in a car accident that lands Stu in a coma.
Stu wakes up on a roller coaster that takes him downtown to the land of nightmares, where he meets creatures like you have never seen before. Along with the insane looking creatures, Stu comes face to face with his own creation Monkeybone who, after finding out Stu's sister decides to help Stu get an exit pass out of his coma. In order to get this pass he must steal it from under the nose of Death (Whoopi Goldberg). All doesn't go to plan and Stu is betrayed by Monkeybone and instead of Stu going back, Monkeybone takes his place in Stu's body in a deal with the dream god Hypnos (Giancarlo Esposito) to give more people nightmares. Now Stu is in a race to get out of dream world to save Julie and stop Monkeybone from giving people the nightmares that entertain downtown.
If you thought the story was bizarre then I have to say that it really is, at times I found myself just thinking that this movie must have been created by some form of crazy person. With that aside we are still given a very good comedy movie with some very great slapstick moments that personally had me roaring with laughter.
One of the funniest parts of the movie is when Monkeybone has taken over Stu's body and is in the bedroom with Julie about to make love. The classic mating dance is something to be experience and genuinely had me in tears. Sure, Brendan Fraser isn't known as the greatest actor in the world, but he's great in roles that just require a silly actor willing to do anything that will give the audience a laugh and that's what Fraser does.
A very enjoyable movie that isn't for everyone, but if you're a fan of Fraser's ridiculous comedy work then this is surely for you.
DVD Review: I chuckled once at the end at a Whoppi line...that's it!
Summary: 2 Stars
A friend of mine worked on the digital painting of MONKEYBONE so she asked me to watch it.Well?......her work was good!
Brendan Fraser is a good looking guy, but a comedian he ain't! This film was soooooo not funny.There were two things I liked: (1) there is a great roller coaster that takes you to the land of death, and (2) Chris Kattan is the true "physical" comedian of this travesty, but has only 10 minutes of screen time towards the conclusion.Bridget Fonda? Totally forgetful role.Megan Mullaly is still "Karen" on WILL AND GRACE.Fraser? He was so good in the serious Gods and Monsters (Special Edition).Why does he do this kind of work?
Whoopi Goldberg plays "Death".She made me laugh once at the end when she says "I'll go after the guys at SOUTH PARK.I heard they want to meet me".
That's it! PASS
DVD Review: Salvor Dail threw up and Andy Warhol filmed it
Summary: 1 Stars
It has been a couple years since I've seen this, and I can still honestly say that it's like watching a Andy Warhol movie of Salvor Dail puking. A kind of swirly colorful mess, with Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda stuck in the ooze of ick, and can't escape it's yuck of a screenplay...On a positive note, Jim Carrey isn't in it. Other then that, nothing can redeem Henry Selick, Kaja Blackley, and Sam Hamm for this putrid monstrosity, and I mean that from the bottm of my heart.DVD Review: Hits 'n' Misses
Summary: 3 Stars
I only hired this movie coz Bridget Fonda(Dream woman) was in it and tht it had a good concept. I was not expecting Gone with the Wind. I just felt like watching a comedy. This seemed to promise some laughs.The movie started out pretty good with the cartoon promo but when he is in a coma and got sent to Down Town it got a bit weird. I didn't know whether it was a dream or hell at first. There are a lot of holes in the script. Much of the characters were 2 dimentional, even Brendon Frasier's character was. The running time went by fast refusing to give the audience more information.
The character Monkeybone was very creative but very cliche. Think Roger Rabbit. John Turturros funny voice makes him quite likable but at the same time anoying. If the creators were trying to make a timeless character they failed. Frasier as Monkeybone was actually quite convincing, maybe because I don't have much faith in him when it comes to comedy. Bridget Fonda's character was kinda wasted which makes me sad. Shes been doing roles like that for ages. The bedroom scene, I noticed Bridget acting bad. She didn't seem to think something was wrong with her hubby who seems to be jumping around on the bed dancing to 'Foxy Lady'. She could have at least put in some confused/shocking expressions. Although I did like it when she was getting undressed behind closed curtains. In this movie she felt like eye-canding to me which I found disappointing. She can do better than that. Frasier & Fonda seemed to have fin chemisry. Chris Kattan was very good and funny. He also convinced me he was Fraiser. Maybe he should have been lead. Unfortunitly he only lasted the final 20 mins of the movie.
The movie does suceed in senseless laughter but only in some parts and the plot was good enough to keep my attention. The movie was 'what you see is what you get' and I wasn't disappointed. It wasn't great but it was descent and thats enough. I recommend this movie to anyone who just feels like getting a cheap laugh.
DVD Review: as great as 'strangelove' . . . and funnier
Summary: 5 Stars
O.K. Duffers! Put up your dukes. Without question the most tasteless, reckless, perjoratively brilliant film ever made. Attacks all sacred cows of Amazon reviewers such as the little girl from Kansas who thinks that Micheal Moore ought to be tried for treason, "cause I just can't stand him". A few of the sacred cows?: the medical establishment, modern science, animation, family films - and family values, PG-13 type movies, love making, love itself, "steamy" sex scenes performed with clothes on, Christian eschatology, religion, Divine Command Theory, human relationships, so-called purpose, will, the meaning of life, life/death, etc. The casting of Whoopi Goldberg as God is simply the perfection of the genre; the acting is utterly without pretention or ham, magnificent up and down the line; and the direction, set design, and editing of one zany scene after another of daunting intricacy should have been awarded Oscars. And they might have, had not the film (which apparently drove the producers into virtual or actual bankrupcy - sort of the 'Heaven's Gate' of comedies), insulted essentially over 95% of any audience who ever saw it in a theatre, and probably most of those who saw it somewhere else. I, however, loved it - the trite "picture truly worth a thousand words" never rung more true - saying in both pictures and words most everything I've ever wanted to say to most everyone I've met over the past thirty years - but never had the time, will, or wit to quite as efficiently lay it on the line.
Description of Monkeybone [Region 2]
Brendan Fraser plays the best-looking cartoonist you'll ever see in Monkeybone. Stu (Fraser) has created an animated character named Monkeybone, who sprang from his repressed sexual anxieties. He's just sold his animated series to a cable channel, and is being bombarded with proposals for toys and other marketing extravaganzas, when he and his girlfriend Julie (Bridget Fonda) get into a car wreck and Stu falls into a coma. But comas are much more complicated than you might expect: Stu finds himself in Down Town, where lives a mixture of other people in comas and figments of these people's imaginations. Naturally, Monkeybone himself is there, and he and Stu quickly start fighting like cats and dogs. When Stu realizes that his sister, due to a pact they once made, is preparing to pull the plug on him, Stu makes a deal with Hypnos, the god of sleep, to help him steal a golden ticket from Death himself (or herself, as Death is played by Whoopi Goldberg). Sound complicated? Well, from there it only gets more ornate. Monkeybone is a bit of a mess, but it's never boring, and every now and then it roars to amazingly dynamic life. Fraser is excellent, and the strong supporting cast includes Giancarlo Esposito (Do the Right Thing), Rose McGowan (Scream), Dave Foley (Brain Candy), and Saturday Night Live's Chris Kattan as a gymnast with a broken neck who... well, it's a bit complicated to explain. A crazy quilt of a movie, chock-full of delirious ideas and inspired moments. --Bret FetzerGeneral DVDs
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